Notices by 183231bcb@transfem.social, page 2

Wow, I am truly impressed by the psychological projection by some Facebook fans. I saw a pro-threads reply-guy arguing that any instance who blocked threads.net was "trying to bring in aspects of proprietary social networks" or that blocking threads would "turn the fediverse into something like email with a single dominant provider controlling everything."

And I don't think they were being sarcastic.
#Fedipact #threads

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Next up Nintendo can wrap up their "consoles play multiple games" experiment and release the next Game and Watch game.

@evan@cosocial.ca Use an instance with no character limit, or a very high character limit.

Boost if your account is ace/aro friendly and you're okay with getting follow requests

so that I can follow or follow-request you.

@spv@mastodon.spv.sh @jacqueline@chaos.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @jacqueline@chaos.social Some folks set up a fediverse instance on the domain queer.af. They intended it to mean "queer as fuck." The problem is that the ".af" top-level domain actually stands for "Afghanistan," not "as fuck." The Taliban was recently given control of the ".af" TLD, so if the admins of queer.af wanted to renew their domain they would have had to pay money to the Taliban, and the instance would be under Afghan law. The admins decided to shut the instance down instead.

@CharismaticBatman@theres.life @jacqueline@chaos.social @RnDanger@infosec.exchange @jacqueline@chaos.social Some folks set up a fediverse instance on the domain queer.af. They intended it to mean "queer as fuck." The problem is that the ".af" top-level domain actually stands for "Afghanistan," not "as fuck." The Taliban was recently given control of the ".af" TLD, so if the admins of queer.af wanted to renew their domain they would have had to pay money to the Taliban, and the instance would be under Afghan law. The admins decided to shut the instance down instead.

Okay fedifriends, please give me advice on buying a game controller.

Some background: I currently play indie games with native Linux support. But I grew up with consoles, and I still think that I'd be more comfortable with a controller for some kinds of games than with a keyboard In particular, I'd like to play precision platformers with a controller. I also think a controller would be good for homebrew made for old consoles.

I have a strong preference for wired peripherals over wireless, and a strong preference for peripherals that don't require their own batteries.


When I sit down to game, I generally want to be able to start playing right away without much set-up. If a game won't launch, I might spend a few minutes adjusting drivers or settings, or I might immediately give up on that game and pick a different game.

Hence, I'd prefer if possible to find a controller that works "out of the box" with a large number of games. I don't want to spend a lot of time configuring button mappings.

So with that in mind, what controller would y'all recommend I buy?

#GameController #GameControllers #GamingOnLinux #PCGaming #Platformer #PrecisionPlatformers

@tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life @fyrfli@diaspora.im @Amelia@transfem.social On Tumblr I had posts that were over 10,000 characters. On fedi I have had threads totalling over 10,000, and once I used writefreely to make a long post that I didn't want to split up.

STOP DOING CHARACTER LIMITS!
Years of imposing artificially low character limits on social media yet NO REAL WORLD use found.

Want to write a short post? We had a tool for that, it was called "write less text than the maximum allowable length!"

We went from 100,000 character limits on forum posts in dial-up days to 500 character limits on Mastodon or 3000 on Misskey.

Look at some of the character-limited posts that character-limiters want us to take seriously:

1) OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com See also: we went from forums with 100,000 character limits to fedi instances with 3,000 character limits #IHateLowCharacterLimits

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io In Fall 2020 I was forced to use HonorLock, an "anti-cheat" suite which recorded videos of students taking tests in their dorm rooms and then used AI to determine whether or not they were cheating. I had to manually override it a lot because it automatically determined
a)All black people are cheating because it can't recognize their faces at all,
b)Anyone who has a roommate is cheating, because it's impossible to take a test in the same room as someone else,
c)Anyone with autism or ADHD is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
d)Anyone with photophobia or related eye conditions is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
e)Anyone using accessability software is cheating because there's software running on their computer
...and a whole bunch of "cheating" accusations that I couldn't discern any reason for.

I am an officially certified Reply Guy. I was an early adopter of the fediverse, also known as Mastodon. I joined in November 2022, which was less than a month after @gargron@mastodon.social single-handedly created the fediverse. I don't know what a content warning is and I think blocking instances is always wrong, which is why I use an instance that blocks 275 other instances.

Copyright supporters in 2018: We need AI to prevent piracy! Let's pass a law requiring all online communication to be scanned by an AI to decide whether or not it is copyright infringement. AI is definitely smart enough to do the job of a judge. Oh, and of course speech approved by a large traditional publisher is except: we wouldn't want any pesky AI accusing US of copyright infringement.

Copyright advocates in 2024: The existence of AI is copyright infringement, unless a large traditional publisher does it.

@RickiTarr@beige.party The question doesn't say the baby is human, so he's pretty clearly an alien of a species where babies can talk, have religious beliefs, and skydive. I'd bet there's a pretty good chance that a baby of this species can also survive skydiving without a parachute.

If you like webcomics and use matrix chat, you are welcome to join my webcomics room:
https://matrix.to/#/#Webcomics:the-apothecary.club #Webcomics #Matrix #MatrixOrg #MatrixChat #Element #ElementChat

@EU_Commission@social.network.europa
Excellent. Now ban DRM.

@ryanc@infosec.exchange Next time I teach linear algebra I'm sharing this with my students.

@mathew@universeodon.com @ljrk@todon.eu @catsalad@infosec.exchange @mozilla@mozilla.social @torproject@mastodon.social @eff@mastodon.social Mozilla is also attempting to sell spyware as "privacy-preserving," and they partnered with Facebook to do it. Mozilla wants you to totally trust that Facebook has your back on privacy:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

There are no good browsers left.

I quote-note polls on Sharkey!

RE: https://woof.group/users/thickurt/statuses/111350403019856834

New instance, new introduction!

I'm Beth. I'm a queer mathematician who loves musical theater, webcomics, teaching math, and my cat.

Favorite areas of math: Topology, geometry, and combinatorics.

Favorite musicals: Chess, Into the Woods, Next to Normal, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd

Favorite webcomics: this is long enough to get its own post:
https://transfem.social/notes/9ius8efgn12cewcz

#Introduction #Queer #Mathematician #Math #Musicals #MusicalTheater #MusicalTheatre #Webcomics #Teaching #TeachingMath #Cat #Cats #SillyGoose #Topology #Geometry #Combinatorics #Chess #ChessTheMusical #IntoTheWoods #NextToNormal #SundayInTheParkWithGeorge #SweeneyTodd #PandorasTaleWiki